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s. omentum minus), and to the duodenum (as lig. hepatico-duode- 

 nale, which is continued to the right kidney as lig. duodeno-renale). 

 On the left side it descends from the diaphragm to the anterior wall 

 of the stomach and the spleen (lig. phrenico- gastric, and one layer 

 of lig. phrenico-lienale), covers the anterior surface of the stomach, 

 descends as one layer of the great omentum [turns upon itself], 

 and ascends as the fourth layer, covering the colon transvers. as 

 mesocolon transfers., passes to the [inferior] border of pancreas, 

 and attaches itself to the posterior abdominal parietes. 



Foramen Winslowii is a space between ven. cava and v. porta- 

 rum below the tubercul. caudatum of the liver. Through this the 

 saccus epiploicus is tucked in. The anterior layer covers 



lobulus Spigelii, forms the posterior layer of lig. gastrico-he- 

 patic. (small omentum), covers the posterior surface of the 

 stomach, descends as second layer of great omentum, and as 

 third layer again ascends, covering [the transv. colon] the 

 anterior surface of the pancreas, and turning back at the lobul. 

 Spigelii. 



Mesenterium. The root of the mesentery extends from the 

 second lumbar vertebra to the symphys.-sacro-iliac. dextr. Be- 

 tween its two layers are found the convolutions of the small intes- 

 tines. From the symph. sacro-iliac., the peritoneum is continued 

 upon the ccecum,proc. vermiform., colon, and rectum. 



In the male it passes from the anterior surface of the rectum to 

 the posterior of the urinary bladder, since it forms the excavat. 

 recto-vesicalis, and on both sides the plicce semilunares Douglasii, 

 covers the lateral two-thirds of the posterior surface of the bladder, 

 invests laterally the lig. vesicce lateralia, and above the lig. vesica 

 suspensor., and then again ascends to the posterior surface of the 

 anterior abdominal parietes. 



In the female it forms the excavatdo-recto-uterin., plic. Dougl., 

 lig. uteri lota, plica and excav. vesico-uterince, passes upon the 

 bladder, and so on. 



Uterus lies in great part covered by peritoneum, above the va- 

 gina, between bladder and rectum, with thefundus in the entrance 

 to the pelvis. 



Tuba FallopicB lies at the entrance to the pelvis, before and 

 above the ovary, at the side of the uterus ; its external extremity 

 projects freely into the abdominal cavity. 



Ovarium, between the layers of the broad ligament, over the 

 round ligament, on the side of fundus uteri, and united with it by 

 lig. ovarii. 



Lig. uteri rotundum, below the tuba and the ovarium, on the 

 lateral borders of the uterus. 





